Can anyone confirm this? There is no mail app available if you have a local account? I went to the Store and Productivity. It says I own this app. However, only the Calendar is installed.

The Metro Mail application should exist, even if you have logged in with a 'local' account. However, you won't be able to do much with it, unless you sign-in with a Microsoft account (image) If you can't see the Mail application, try searching for it. On the Metro start page just start typing Mail and hopefully you'll find it.

Thanks, Calico. Mail is still not listed among the other apps. It loads when, I you say, I search for it. However, it's just a blank slate. It says 'Accounts', but nothing is listed underneath and it doesn't give me any options. Someone, on some forum, said to press the windows key along with C to add an account, but that doesn't do anything of that nature. One of those bugs...

Hello, I'm trying to help someone who is on Windows 8.. Myself, I use Windows 7 so I am not as familiar with Windows 8, so I was wondering if someone could help us out.
She likes to use the Windows 8 Start Screen that has all the tiles on it. Normally, she clicks on the "Mail" icon to get to...

I have recently purchased an ACER aspire V5 with windows 8 preloaded. Nice machine, nice touchscreen etc and getting to know it. Instructions are terrible - hence;
I entered my email address as .live.co.uk and everything worked, but there is no facility to cut and paste, create new mail folders/...

When I send an e TO myself with BCC to a list of recipients my copy of the Sent Mail doesn't show the BCC list?
Until recently I used to receive two copies of Sent Mail, the one not showing the BCC list the other showing the BCC list.
Any advice please?

Hi,
I was using my Gmail account with the Windows 8 Mail App and it was all working fine until I updated it through the store yesterday (I haven't updated it before so I don't know what version of the app I am now using). Today when I try and access my folders I just getting a message saying 'no...

I got instructions off Microsofts site on how to transfer my contacts list but it involved "the cloud" which I can't be bothered with, I want things on MY computer thank you! And I don't want an outlook.com account.
So using Windows explorer I went to the Windows Mail folder and double clicked a...

hi forum about how long should windows live mail take to download emails its been over 3 hours now i know all the server details are correct as i checked them a few times and it says it is downloading emails about how long should it take before i cancel let me know anyone i am with optus in...